> A few students have said, I > want my own Listserv list. I haven't been approached seriously yet, but > it will happen any day now. > My position is that Listserv Lists on campus are for the academic > community, not for individual use for presenting one's habits, providing > recreation, or a forum for indivdual tastes, etc., I think they can do > that on usenet. :-) Realistically, how are mailing lists different in terms of expression? I'd argue that mailing lists are in some ways more efficient than newsgroups -- random newsgroups for silly purposes waste a shared resource (news spool area space), while mailing lists only waste the disk quotas of people who choose to subscribe. > Listserv currently runs on a machine that probably > can't take a lot more stress...but that aside, what are your thoughts > on this issue and have you had such requests at your institution > from students and what arguments do you use against the trival use > of listserv...I could use some about now. :-) Charge a nominal fee -- say $10 per list per semester -- for the privilege. $10 isn't excessive, but it will give a sense that the service consumes some amount of resources that aren't free. It also gives the appearance of giving them what they want while discouraging the truly frivolous lists...8-).